WOULD you know which married couple were the first to appear on TV in bed together?

Was Rolf Harris ever an Australian national swimmer in his teenage years?

Or would you know whether Loyd Grossman took his shoes off when visiting people’s houses in Through the Keyhole?

These were just some of the questions that stumped a top pub quiz team from Coventry at a national competition last month.

The Last Post team, who are regulars at the Holyhead Pub quiz on a Monday night, were delighted to win the regional heat of the Great Ember Pub Quiz to compete against 11 other teams in the national final, hosted by Catchphrase star Roy Walker.

And the team made up of Kam Dhaliwal, Danielle Cartwright, Craig Element and Linford Pinnock did themselves proud coming fourth overall.

Craig, who has been taking part in quizzes for ten years, said he knew fairly early on they were not destined to win this quiz.

“When we are all together at the Holyhead we are very hard to beat. But here we knew very early on that it wasn’t going to be our night, said the 36-year-old computer programmer from Middlecotes, Tile Hill.

“When the rounds came out we didn’t really think we had a chance so fourth was not a bad result for us. We would have preferred third of course but I suppose it isn’t bad.

“I think people were taking it far more seriously than it deserved to be.

"We just thought let’s just have a bit of fun and abuse the free bar whereas other people thought it was an exam and were shushing us for talking.

“But it was a pub quiz and we wanted to have fun. Although maybe that is why we didn’t do so well.”

The contest had a £4,000 prize fund up for grabs.

Over six rounds, the team was quizzed on news from the 1970s, TV theme tunes, celebrity pictures and a true or false section.

Danielle, 27, of Middlecotes, Tile Hill, said: “I was dead nervous.

“When you are in a team you don’t want to let everyone else down but when we got there and they said what the rounds were, we all got this sinking feeling that we weren’t going to win this.

“We are a strong team because we have a range of ages and different backgrounds so we were disappointed to not win.